Archimate 1.0 Specification

# Archimate is simple but comprehensive enough to provide a good structuring mechanism for architecture domains, layers, and aspects. # Archimate incorporates modern ideas of the service orientation paradigm. # Although it intentionally resembles the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the ArchiMate modeling notation is intuitive and much lighter than currently proposed by UML 2.0. # The two enterprise architecture standards of The Open Group TOGAF and ArchiMate complement each other and can be used well in combination. # Tool support for the ArchiMate language is already commercially available.